MOTIONLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does motionless mean? 

• MOTIONLESS (adjective)
  The adjective MOTIONLESS has 1 sense:

1. not in physical motion

  Familiarity information: MOTIONLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTIONLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not in physical motion

Synonyms:

inactive; motionless; static; still

Context example:

the inertia of an object at rest

Similar:

nonmoving; unmoving (not in motion)

Derivation:

motionlessness (a state of no motion or movement)

 Context examples 

The white figure lay motionless in the middle of the great plain.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every animal was motionless as though turned to stone.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Never had I known my friend more moved, and yet the dark street still stretched lonely and motionless before us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he stood motionless and staring as before.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But at the end of half an hour he arose, growled wrathfully at the motionless ball, and trotted on.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

For twenty minutes I had sat motionless, thinking the matter out.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She looked very pretty, and was very merry; but the little feet that used to be so nimble when they danced round Jip, were dull and motionless.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I stood motionless under my hierophant's touch.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So they stood, silent and motionless, when their leader came riding towards them, his face shining and his whole small figure swelling with the news which he bore.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hand which had so pressed hers to his heart! the hand and the heart were alike motionless and passive now!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)